Bruce Golden

Better Than Chocolate Bruce Golden

Noah Dane is a mid-21st Century San Francisco police inspector who, while hunting his partner's killer and investigating a pair of seemingly unrelated murders, stumbles onto a conspiracy that threatens all humanity. Noah is driven by the guilt over his partner's death. That guilt begins to eat at him, eventually rendering him impotent.
Much to his dismay, someone in the city's bureaucracy has a warped sense of humor. Noah's new crime-fighting partner is a celebudroid created to look and act like Marilyn Monroe. Comic juxtaposition ensues when her original programming seeps into her police work.
Chastity Blume is a celebrity talk show host known as America's Favorite Virgin. Her quest to find the mother she's never known uncovers family secrets she would rather not have learned, along with a sinister plot that involves her father.
Together they lead a cast of quirky characters through this science fiction mystery towards a climax of comically sexy proportions that's Better Than Chocolate.